If you would like Warpton to consider you as a potential artist, please read the following guidelines:

We are looking for three main things in all art samples:

1. Your ability to tell a story through pictures
2. Your ability to draw.
3. The sequential flow of the pages and panels on a page.

Comic books are a storytelling medium. Samples should demonstrate your ability to tell a story in a sequence of pictures. Create a story or get some one else to tell a story creating four to six pages of it, breaking down each scene into the optimal number of panels to tell a story visually.

Please include the script that you have worked from if you have one, regardless of how limited it may be.

Technical specifications for Artists

When producing work for Warpton, there are few specifications that must be observed.

Image area, interior pages:

Pages must be 10" wide, 15" tall. When reduced to standard comic book format, this will yield printed image of 6" wide, 9" tall. Use paper to work on that is no smaller than 11" wide and 17" tall (this is industry standard) no larger than 12" wide and 18" tall. For full bleeds (an image that covers the entire printed page),use image area of 11, 1/4" wide by 17,1/4" tall. Nothing of great importance should fall out of the standard 10"x15" image. Image area, double-page interior spreads: 21,1/6" wide by 15" tall. Double-page full bleed spread: 22,3/16" wide, 17,1/4" tall.

Image area, covers:

10" wide, 15,1/8" tall. Allow 1/4" on all sides for trim (actual printed area image will be 9,1/2" wide by 14,5/8" tall). Wraparound cover (including front and back cover),19,3/4" wide by 15,1/8" tall. Remember that on a wraparound cover, the front cover is the right hand side of the art.

Paper:

Paper should be of a good to high quality and of a suitable thickness, No cheap sketch books please. Heavyweight cartridge paper is fine. Choose one that you are comfortable with.

Ink:

If you are going to use ink, (which is often used and preferred ) ,please make sure it is BLACK PERMANENT ink,(india ink is the best.). Any media can be used although artists should bare in mind that the finished product is to be reduced and printed. No unwieldy pages please.(things stuck on and flying off).

Also it is best to avoid colors that do not print well. Colours are made up of a combination of magenta, cyan, yellow and black. Many vivid colors,pastels and all fluorescents do not reproduce well without expensive preparation and custom inks. Best to stay with simple classic palette.

Text :

Text should always be approached with caution. When composing frames always consider where the text will go and how much space it will take up.